“No! No! No!” Arabella made a piercing cry in her sleep. Her body was trembling and she was pushing and kicking her quilt and pillow that hinders her body.
“Call the doctor now!” Farrah’s nervous voice came out.
“Got it!” A man’s voice replied and quickly went out.
“Arabella wake up! You are just dreaming. Wake up!” Farrah was holding her hand to make Arabella calm down from struggling.
Arabella could hear the people’s voice. She slowly lifted her eyes to open. They were still heavy and she felt weak all over her body.
A white wall greeted her blurry sight. Then it slowly turned clear when she slowly flipped her head on the side and saw her best friend’s worried face.
“Where Am I?” Arabella was confused. She tried wracking her brain, but there was no use. She couldn’t remember anything.
“You are in the hospital. You have been sleeping for 3 days now.” Farrah explained.
After hearing Farrah, that was the only time she regained her last memory with Sharon who made her as a hostage. She then realized that she was caught in her dream. Now, she was unsure if those memories of her childhood were true or just part of her horrible dream. Remembering the boy in her dream, she felt a painful pinched in her heart. If that was really her lost memories, she would never forget the boy she met in that tragic moment in her life.
‘If that boy had lived, will we see each other again?’ She was still in grief since she already knew the answer to her question. She heard it clearly, that boy was killed and died so it was impossible for them to see each other again in this lifetime.
“Are you okay? Is there anything hurt?” Farrah was alerted when she saw her best friend was not moving and with a painful expression on her face.
Farrah’s incessant questions made Arabella snapped back to her senses.
“What happened? Who brought me here?” She had no idea who saved her since she never told anyone about her transaction with the mystery caller. In her heart, whoever her savior, she was very thankful to the person that she was still alive.
“I don’t know. A man with an unknown number just called me that you are here. It was just a quick call then he hanged up. I didn’t get a chance to ask his name or ask what happened to you.” Farrah was with teary eyes while replying.
“Where is Sharon? What happened to her? Is she dead?” Arabella had so many questions in her mind. Confused, anger and worried, she had mixed emotions. When she was being pushed to the ground after that gunshot, she saw Sharon fall on the ground next to her with full of blood on her body. After that, she collapsed and didn’t know what happened next.
“Who is Sharon?” Confused, Farrah was at a loss as she couldn’t give an exact answer to Arabella’s non-stop questions.
“She was the reason why I am here.” Arabella realized that she was asking too much questions to puzzled Farrah.
Arabella wished Sharon to be alive, but she didn’t aim her to be free after what she did to her. She felt already satisfied that she was saved by an unknown savior and her anger to Sharon slowly dissipated, but still she felt sorry for Officer Jackson’s death.
Then she remembered Bill, the mastermind of everything. A deluge displeasure on her face showed up in an instant. She gritted her teeth and strongly clenched her hands into fists. Her look was like a person who woke up from a grave and to avenge her death, she wanted to kill the person who murdered her.
“Did Bill show up here?” Arabella’s mood changed suddenly bearing a fierce voice.
“No. I’ve been here from the 1st day. I haven’t seen him until now. I asked Gab about him, but he said Bill was out of the country for business.” Farrah let out a heavy breath as her sign of annoyance and displeasure.
Upon hearing Farrah, Arabella’s heart for some unknown reason had felt disappointed. Her mind was telling her that, she was angry at him for planning to kill her, but undeniably her heart was giving him the benefit of the doubt. ‘Wow! Great! Maybe he knew his plan failed, now, he wanted to escape from what he had done to me!’ Arabella angrily thought while gritting her teeth. ‘That’s right! Don’t make me see you or I will kill you before you kill me! She cursed.
“Are you okay? The doctor is coming.” Farrah couldn’t withstand Arabella’s changed of expression. She looked exasperated that made Farrah scared.
“I’m here!” The man with a white lab coat rushed inside the room followed by another man.
Arabella looked at the doctor and the man behind him. From her vision, the man was so familiar to her. The man smiled at her and went back to Farrah. He then tapped the worried Farrah on the shoulder. From Arabella’s point of view, it was clear to her that the two had already a firmed relationship. Arabella felt happy with her best friend, but a little disappointed having the feeling that was being by-passed as a best friend of their real relationship status.
The doctor checked Arabella thoroughly and successfully. She also shared the memories she remembered while she was in her deep slumber. After scrutinizing her brain using the machine, the doctor confirmed that she had gained her memory back but it was not all complete as she could not remember the face of the man who lifted her from the ground and what happened after she woke from her unconsciousness. Resting her mind would help so much to regain everything she had lost. The doctor was positive that Arabella would recall everything in due time.
When the doctor exited the room, a moment of silence had passed. No one dared to talk and no one dared to explain.
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